Amos 5:3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

For thus says the Lord God: The city that marched out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which marched out a hundred shall have ten left.

Cross References

Psalm 144:14

and may our cattle be heavy with young. May there be no breach in the walls, no exile, and no cry of distress in our streets.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 10:22

For though your people Israel were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

Isaiah 6:13

Even if a tenth part remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump.

Ezekiel 12:16

But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations where they go; then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Amos 6:9

If ten people remain in one house, they shall die.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved;

Deuteronomy 28:62

Although once you were as numerous as the stars in heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63

And just as the Lord took delight in making you prosperous and numerous, so the Lord will take delight in bringing you to ruin and destruction; you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples; only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will lead you.